hi there, well scott, what you have done is similar to what i am planning to do since personally i think it is easier for the designer to design if he has to change the look at one single page ( approx) . I was thinking of not using any widgets at all for the rendering ...instead go with prototype for the ajax and simple anims. I haven't gone much deeply into jQuery but from what i have seen it seems to be a much better alternative.
My intention is to make an interface which is clean, simple and really fast ( responsive) . If you don't mind, and if it is not confidential , can we have a look at what you have done with ur portal. especially the part about dropping layouts and decorators it will really be helpful to get a reference point for me to begin with. I will be working on this as soon as my exams get over possible ...i.e in about 20-30 days more. Hope fully i could make something good enuf to share it with you guys. Maybe we need to have a Jetspeed Summit meeting to discuss all these
new directions. like jQuery I think it would be great to get you and Steve and Team and the other /desktop developers together to brainstorm ....
I would love to be a part of this. I hope this can be done online . I think you would first have to have a good understanding of the code
I would start reviewing the code, maybe taking it through the debugger, walking thru it Also have a look at the /desktop pipeline, and then the desktop javascript code
will do .. and thanks for the help Regards Team Vit On 4/23/07, Weaver, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Team, I am just curious. Which, if any, javascript API, are you thinking of replacing DOJO with? I was using DOJO for my "desktop" implementation but dropped it about 5 months ago because issues with size, relative complexity, the dearth of documentation and performance issues (specifically with widgets). I did a little research and decided to go with jQuery, which I immediately fell in love with. Compressed, the base jQuery is only 19k. As for layouts, that is something I also replaced. What I came up with is based loosely on other CMS theme implementations (like that used in Drupal). It still uses Velocity as the templating language. I also dropped the idea of separation of layouts from decorations. For me it was just over kill and was harder to manage than I would like. Now you just create a page.html in your theme directory and go from there. I would love to get my theme implementation back into Jetspeed 2 as an alternate to the layout approach. Unfortunately, I haven't had any time to pull down the newest J2 and get all the functionality (I don't think I currently support everything that the layouts do) in place in the theme system. As for disabling /portal, I think that is as simple as removing the servlet mapping from J2's web.xml. -scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Team Vit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:03 AM > To: Jetspeed Users List; Jetspeed Developers List > Subject: Modifying the Jetspeed Desktop > > Hi there, > > I would like to completely change the web interface of the AJAX desktop, > by dropping dojo, and the layouts concepts. If I had to do so, How would i > go about it > Could Someone please guide me here as to where to start??? > Also, if i had to disable the /portal view, how would i do it?? > > > Regards > > Team VIT --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
